GraPara! - Vol. 14 Ch. 136 - Grapara!

[CraneBrane]

She is upset because overseas peeps are more vocal, Japanese just hate her in silence or are being censored/deleted on mangapoke, so she thinks we are the problem.

I think this is the correct answer. She's angry at the vocal foreigners.

 

[CraneBrane]

All I know is that we are about to get the most diabolical doujinshis and side stories of GraPara with how much Airi is mad. The funny thing is this could've been so easily avoided if she just decided to make the manga ending good and satisfy her fetishes from extended doujinshis, but she had to ruin the main work because she lacks any sort of mental cognition and ability to face criticism as an artist who just wasted 3 years of readers time as well as money to satisfy her own narcissistic agenda.

I think it depends on if the publisher and the artist allow this to happen. I believe either one could potentially stop her

 

[Alsatia]

https://x.com/airikatsura/status/2091159112092721443?s=20
Kudos to her for defending the artist at least. She says she's fine but is she really? Most of the comments giving criticism to her are from the Japanese.

One is even saying to just leave the foreigners alone.

 

[Xain]

This is what happens when you give mediocre writing too much fame, karamizakari made her think of herself as some kind of writing genius and her current reaction to criticism proves how much it inflated her ego given that she still thinks she did nothing wrong. I have seen egotistical writers before but they have something to back their ego but Airi is just simply deluded. I hope she gets a severe reality check because she is still in denial and continues to make a fool of herself publicly.

 

[Xain]

https://x.com/airikatsura/status/2091159112092721443?s=20
Kudos to her for defending the artist at least. She says she's fine but is she really? Most of the comments giving criticism to her are from the Japanese.

One is even saying to just leave the foreigners alone.

I feel like we are giving Nishikida too much benefit of the doubt just because the art is good. As the main artist he could've had a big say in the story to not make it this much of a trainwreck (I have also read somewhere that he has equal rights to Grapara as Airi). For me the artist, Writer and the editor all carry equal blame. And I doubt Nishikida disagreed with Airi's vision given how much he likes her previous works.

 

[whorainzoneeee]

I, myself have read a few decent ones. Solo Farming in the Tower is a fun read. Mostly slice of life with a little bit of action/combat sprinkled in, and plenty of cute supporting characters.
Leveling with Skills is also not bad. A bit similar to Solo Leveling, but the MC seems a little less overpowered. At least for now, anyway.
Disastrous Necromancer is another manhwa in the same vein. This one is much more similar to Solo Leveling in that both use summons/minions to fight.
Logging 10,000 Years in the Future is also like Solo Leveling, but with a Wuxia twist, though I think that one might be a Donghua.
The Mad Demon is a Wuxia-focused piece that takes place in what seems to be China during the Confucian era. I'm in the middle of reading that one. It's got some pretty funny moments.
Questism, which is a title I have mentioned before in the past, is a martial arts-focused gacha game, in which the MC completes quests in order to earn random cards that grant abilities or increase stats. These quests, as you can imagine, are primarily combat-based with a few exceptions. This one is already completed, so you can just binge the whole series in about 2 or 3 hours, depending on how fast you read. There were hints at a sequel made in the last chapter, but I'm not sure how much further the author could take that story (you'll see what I mean when you read it).
The Archmage's Restaurant is another favorite of mine. It's a high fantasy manhwa centered around an Archmage named Ellison, who was isekai'd to that world, and his female Dragon companion, Lurin. There's a bit of a slice of life feel, but there's quite a bit of action mixed in. There's also a bit of romantic tension between a few members of the cast.

I have a few more sitting in my backlog, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. Hope this helps anyone who is interested.

Have to read a few of them. Except the Mc is like sjw I hate the mc of solo leveling the stupid aura farming is so fucking wack

 

[whorainzoneeee]

Such peak Pornhwas, also My landlady Noona and Circles.

Boarding diary, keep it a secret from your mother, learning the hard way, between us, childhood bride, sextudy group and wonderful new world are also great reads.
If you didn’t read them go for it, but wonderful new world is not safe but no ntr in typical sense

 

[Alsatia]

I feel like we are giving Nishikida too much benefit of the doubt just because the art is good. As the main artist he could've had a big say in the story to not make it this much of a trainwreck (I have also read somewhere that he has equal rights to Grapara as Airi). For me the artist, Writer and the editor all carry equal blame. And I doubt Nishikida disagreed with Airi's vision given how much he likes her previous works.

That's honestly a fair take. I think that's why some speculate that the artist took over the ending to try and salvage something. Though given Airi's tweets it doesn't sound like it's the case.

 

[box2024]

https://x.com/airikatsura/status/2091159112092721443?s=20
Kudos to her for defending the artist at least. She says she's fine but is she really? Most of the comments giving criticism to her are from the Japanese.

One is even saying to just leave the foreigners alone.

I went and looked at where they are from most aren't there are two from Japan that are and two that are supporting her everyone else is from over seas. But I have to say one American is criticizing her if you are here stop doing that dammit and one is simping and lurking here. Most of us understand NTR just fine I never read more than enough of it to all that was was sakura looking for a reason to cheat not ntr there was little build up to it and we didn't get to see her completely taken and she wasn't so it wasn't even a proper netorare. You can make a romance or a netorare not both. No I will not be commenting under her x posts complaining about the ending because it IS her story to tell and she told it. That and I literally can't buy it.

My rant for the day is over now.

Now that I think about it would have been so much more convenient to buy grapara from the raw site than to wait. I could have just machine translated it myself while waiting for the better translation.

 

[jonasadan]

https://x.com/airikatsura/status/2091159112092721443?s=20
Kudos to her for defending the artist at least. She says she's fine but is she really? Most of the comments giving criticism to her are from the Japanese.

One is even saying to just leave the foreigners alone.

I think it's already very obvious that the criticism is affecting her, I think she tries to hide that by justifying herself with the behavior of the foreigners.

 

[whorainzoneeee]

She has a point, the only thing wrong here is that I believe a fair percentage of the JP readers that were paying are also pretty uhappy but the loud foreigners copy pasting criticisms on socials this past month+ make her argument valid here.

Considering not everyone can buy the chapter this statement(I mean airis not yours)is stupid ngl even someone here also commented already he would buy it but Japanese didn’t accept his pay

 

[Edway89]

What other mangas has this artist worked for? The art is too good to be wasted like this.

 

[whorainzoneeee]

So Ak is crashing out and getting bullied on x ??? That’s truly music in my ears. The fact ak interacts to foreigner shows that she is breaking down lmao what an idiot.

 

[box2024]

So Ak is crashing out and getting bullied on x ??? That’s truly music in my ears. The fact ak interacts to foreigner shows that she is breaking down lmao what an idiot.

Man that's just mean spirited.

 

[whorainzoneeee]

Man that's just mean spirited.

Sure it is. But I always said the same thing. Going with fake tags and than scamming the readers with them. She deserves everything she is going through rn. Idc about her she just shouldn’t put some idiotic fetishes into the story that is tagged as romance…

 

[box2024]

Sure it is. But I always said the same thing. Going with fake tags and than scamming the readers with them. She deserves everything she is going through rn. Idc about her she just shouldn’t put some idiotic fetishes into the story that is tagged as romance…

To be fair NTR is in the title.

 

[CraneBrane]

To be fair NTR is in the title.

To be fair NTR is in a whole lot of titles that aren't really NTR, or the NTR is in the first few chapters and the rest are the MC getting over it or getting revenge.

 

[whorainzoneeee]

To be fair NTR is in the title.

You can sugarcoat anything; until a chapter or two ago, you were criticizing it yourself to no end.

 

[box2024]

You know I'm really resisting the need to post in defense of Arir and the artist here at the end of the day it's is Arir's story to tell and even if you didn't like how she told it you should respect that.

 

[box2024]

You can sugarcoat anything; until a chapter or two ago, you were criticizing it yourself to no end.

Yep I didn't like how the story went but I'm not going to go and harass the author or artist about it I will criticize of course but I'm not going to call Arir a hack author nor claim she is mentally ill. Of course I will make a joke or two at her expense but I'm not mean spirited about it. Yes sometimes frustration got the better of me on this form.